Illegal Drags

[JNR24]

Originally posted by Zdenko

speaking of which

what u doin next week

i wanna get da trimatic so i gotta sell da box ned help ripping it out

learnt my leason with da diff not to do it my self..

back stil hurts

Whitch day??

We can do it saturday morning if you want? Cause leahs got dancing until 1:00PM...

We should be able to drop the box in a couple of hours

[Zdenko]

lol

trev

on the street ul have no chance man

seriously

logically speaking if your car producing more power then my motor.. u tell me thursday after lunch as im goin side ways when boost kicks in

how ur gonna takle of with out wheel spinning all day long....

il get u hard of take of and while ur changing gears and wheeling spinning away .. il be 100 meters ahead of u...

as u told me Autos r quicker..

so man

i dont really want audio bahnsubs man...

what i do needs is some floor mates man. hahaha i understand u wasted all that money on ur skyline so i wont be harsh ok,...

[Zdenko]

yeh

this dude on VLCALAIS is selling a trimatic.. so il see how much i can get it for ..

then i gotta sell my box asap and then do da switch over

[Leewah]

I think this has gotten a little off topic. Maybe this topic should be moved to the Wasteland for futher analysis...

[benm]

I live about 20-25mins away from these illegal street drags that were mentioned on www.news.com.au (im not sure for certain coz i've never been to them and don't know -exactly- where they are).

We have legal street drags at Sydneys Eastern Creek drag strip every second wednesday and let me tell ya ur doing well to watch 1 good meeting in every 4. The cost is $15 which i believe is alittle exxy, around $8-10 would be more the suitable price I think. The facilities are very good and you get a full view of everything from the 1 spot so that isn't a problem.

With the drags being held from 5pm-10pm on a Wedneday during a normal week just isn't right at all. Most people are stuffed from work and couldn't be bothered attending (or is it the entry fee's).

Then for the drivers it costs $45 with no guaranteed runs. If you dont get there before 5pm your lucky to get 2 runs if that before the night ends. It would also be quite difficult for 90% of the working population to get there at 5pm to race.

In <3mths the new dedicated drag strip will be ready to go. Hopefully this means cheaper prices, weekend runs and in general a much better experience for the average jow blow (ie; actually being able to drag your mate instead of being paired up with a 9sec Pac Rotor).

[raist60]

I bet everyone whos taking the 'drags and driving fast is bad mmkay' stance has never done high speeds in their line on the street before... pfft

No offense to the choir boys in here but a nice blast along an empty freeway/highway at night vs another nice car is bloody fun and im sure no-one can deny that. The hype thats been surrounding the "illegal drags" is ****ing ridiculous.

Calder is too expensive too infreqent and generally just shit house. Most people cant be bothered driving 140km to a strip either. So whats the natural bloody alternative, people on the street. Number 1 the way these media dickheads make our the drags you'd expect to go there and find a demolition derby with the general public having to duck for cover and rescue their children and grandparents blah blah blah. What crap the street runs are held in ****ing industrial zones late at night with no Joe Public around.

If the cops/vic gov. had so much ****ing regard for public safety and a genuine interest in getting the racing off the street they'd help provide a place for people to go that doesnt required 4 tanks of fuel to get there.

[Zdenko]

AMEN BROTHER

[NismoR34]

Originally posted by inark

... lets make it possible for these ppl to do so in a safe environment more often... calder i hear u say??? PFFFFFFFFFt 50 ****ing dollars for around 3 of 4 runs... get real... the dragways in NZ are held more often and in more places and cost a hell of a lot less... if they made it more affordable and at more than one far away venue this would more than likely cut down the illegal stuff.

adding to that:

"FRIDAY EVENINGS

GATES OPEN 5.00 PM

RACING 6.00 PM

COMPETITOR ENTRY $55.00 (Incl. GST)

ENTRY - BURNOUT COMP $40.00 (Incl. GST)

SPECTATOR $17.00 (Incl. GST)"

yeah good one, make everyone drive through friday f**king peak hour traffic to get there too...and $17 just to watch - no wonder there are so many 'spectators' at the illegal drags...

of course there is always heathcote as a back up - only $40 but spend $30 in fuel at least to get there and back driving for f**king 2 hours each way...

I would rather go on a cruise personally

we need more venues or at least better access to the current ones - ie. price, time and frequency of events...

/end rant

[predator]

AMEN BROTHER DALE

$40 just to do burnouts - come on, thats just a little silly.

Just for an average chump like me, leave work (30 mins early mind you) at 5:00pm.. get there if I rush around 6:20pm...pass go and pay $9.30 citylink toll + $20 petrol for the night. After that the lineup is pretty long and i'll be lucky to get 3 runs. So by the end of that I've ended up paying $85 just to get 2-3 runs. Really not so cheap, but i'll do it anyway

Compared to $125 defect notice (if you're unlucky) you can see why people don't do it the legal way..

[Wardest]

Yeah it sux, yeah its difficult and yeah there are few other options. But unfortunately the Govt isn't gonna build a dragstrip closer to Melbourne just because a tiny minority, yes we are tiny in their eyes, wants one. Nor will insurance companies drop public liability premiums which would lower entry fees. We all know how much $$$ there is to be made. Why should they charge less when they are making a killing? Would you?

Ppl who wanna race have two options, legal or illegal. One way is expensive and involves little return for your money if there are big turnouts at the tracks. The other leads to increased negative police attention, tougher penalites for traffic infingments and higher vehicle insurance premiums.

Coming from someone who has no interest in racing his skyline this prolly sounds cheap but my advice is to get used to it.

Either pay the $$$ to do it legally or pay the price by going illegally. the choice is yours.

[raist60]

If we're so tiny why so much publicity and police attention/resources? I thought it was a matter of public safety not what we want.

Why not just open up sandown? Is that so terribly difficult to manage? Its close to all eastern suburb racers, its a nice track and its hardly used.

Im simply stating the fact that cops and govt fags seem so insistent upon ****ing over anyone with a nice car rather than work on the cause of the issues. Ie. Nowhere to race? What do they think people are just gonna throw away their cars and forget racing coz they dont like it. cops ass.

/my 2 cents

[adznight]

Sandown has HUGE restrictions on when and what they can hold due to noise pollution and the surrounding houses. Yes I know it a load of S#IT but what can you do. I think it would be an awesome idea to have a drag track in the SE suburbs myself! We need new tracks! It they want to get street racers off the road then give them a place to play.

[predator]

So it has to be either miles from anywhere (then people don't go because its too far), or near a residential area...then people complain because of the noise, and yet if illegal drags are held because there is nowhere to go, then they complain again..

Hmmm.. kinda hard to keep everybody happy but there must be some sort of way it can be done!

[raist60]

Two things spring to mind.

1. People knowingly moved into houses next to a racetrack and end up complaining. haha, and humans are intelligent

2. Make a closed pipe, dB restriction rule. Majority of street racers have relatively road legal cars.

Only two possibilities i understand the noise pollution issues of sandown. But they arent really insurmountable problems imho.

[adznight]

Originally posted by predator666

So it has to be either miles from anywhere (then people don't go because its too far), or near a residential area...then people complain because of the noise, and yet if illegal drags are held because there is nowhere to go, then they complain again..

Hmmm.. kinda hard to keep everybody happy but there must be some sort of way it can be done!

Damn straight man, how stupid are these people. They are on the same level as the people that move in next to live music venues and the have them shut down as they "disturb the peace". Pffft, Whatever!

[phorj]

I've been to a few of the illegal drags in Vic, well... the east-side one anyway!

very organised, but as mentioned previously... 1 in every 4 is actually good!

most of the night is spent going from venue-venue, have 7-8 runs... get back in the cars and leave due to police that have been called to the scene!

I left my car at home and went with a few mates in a stock Mits. Verada! Try and get defected in that

I don't condone street-racing, and rarely give my car stick at a set of lights!

As previously mentioned... it's about a rush, but I also think pride factors into it, and the whole 'my d1ck is bigger than your d1ck'.

for many it is pride in winning! but for the majority of Import owners it's pride in their vehicle and not wanting to risk the cops impounding it!

just my 2c...

[Guest RedLineGTR]

it comes down to:

Do u want a fine?

Do u want a record for future reference?

Do u want to be defected?

The possibility to get your car towed?

Possibly get sent to jail for serious stuff?

etc...it's all good to watch but to do it unless u know what your getting into its not really worth it.My 2 cents..

[riggaP]

Originally posted by phorj

I left my car at home and went with a few mates in a stock Mits. Verada! Try and get defected in that

A mate of mine went ages ago in a pos Charade stocker. The fuzz went over the car and couldnt find any reason to defect it, so asked him to turn the headlights off. The piggy walked away and spoke to another piglet for a few minutes. At this point my mate realised he was slightly blocking traffic so he proceeded to move the car to the side of the road and wait for sargent stoopid to return. The sarg returned and asked "Why were you driving at night without your headlights on?" My mate copped a $135 fine....

Just coz your in a stock car dont mean they wont use every trick in the book. He deserved it tho

[inark]

Originally posted by Adzmax

Sandown has HUGE restrictions on when and what they can hold due to noise pollution and the surrounding houses. Yes I know it a load of S#IT but what can you do. I think it would be an awesome idea to have a drag track in the SE suburbs myself! We need new tracks! It they want to get street racers off the road then give them a place to play.

i live in dingley which is like a 15min drive from sandown and yet when they have the supercars these restrictions are wavered... ffs its day time. I can hear them from my house and sometimes when they are practicing in the early mornings (i sleep lated due to night shift) i get woken up... not many of us have cars as loud as supercars yet we have all these BS restrictions...

[benm]

Why build the track there if they have to place restrictions like that for the track.